ZIP code profile · 2024 county data
ZIP Code 65255
Boone County, Missouri: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.
Data updated 2026-08-24
- 221
- Property rate /100K (county)
- 5,112
- Population (ZIP)
- 45
- Violent rate /100K (county)
Is ZIP code 65255 safe? Honest data snapshot
ZIP code 65255 sits within Boone County, MO, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).
Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 45 violent incidents and 221 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.
ZIP 65255 carries a Census-reported population of 5,112, ranking #5 of 11 ZIPs in Boone County, spread across 56.48 square miles (about 91 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Boone County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Boone County crime page linked below.
ZIP 65255 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Boone County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.
ZIP 65255 Census context
These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.
- Median household income
- $75,619
- Median age
- 32.8 years
- Owner-occupied homes
- 79%
- Occupied homes
- 1,837
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).
How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 65255?
Within the participating-agency records for Boone County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 87% below and property crime is 87% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 65255. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.
65255 is comparatively spread out at about 91 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.
Boone County UCR book ZIP 65255 inherits
ZIP 65255 itself is about 91 people per Census sq mi across 56.5 sq mi (5,112 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.
ZIP 65255 accounts for roughly 2.8% of the county reporting population (5,112 of 183,610).
Boone County leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses (mix index 3,715). ZIP 65255 has no separate FBI offense book.
Boone County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -6% vs 2023; property counts -32% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.
Boone County offense mix (2024)
Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.
Nationwide peers for ZIP 65255
Similar county violent rate (~45/100K)
- ZIP 42406, KY · 44.6/100K · Henderson County
- ZIP 31321, GA · 44.7/100K · Bryan County
- ZIP 30028, GA · 44.6/100K · Forsyth County
- ZIP 38677, MS · 44.8/100K · Lafayette County
Similar Census population (~5,112)
- ZIP 70075, LA · 5,112 pop · Δ0
- ZIP 04268, ME · 5,113 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 29805, SC · 5,113 pop · Δ1
- ZIP 52726, IA · 5,113 pop · Δ1
County detail: Boone County · State atlas: Missouri
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).
Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.
Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.